Word: exceptionably
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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In Richmond's conservative Commonwealth Club 200 Virginians and their guests last week gathered to dine on terrapin stew, beaten biscuits, Smithfield ham and orange ice, toast Argentina and the U. S. in brimming glasses of champagne. Cause of these happy doings: a preview that night at the Virginia...
Contrary to popular opinion, great opera singers are almost never discovered ready-made in fish markets and prairie ranches. They get that way only after years of hard training and plugging practice. No exception to this iron rule, Lauritz Melchior spent eight years before he rated a contract (in Copenhagen...
There to hear him were almost every U. S. Senator** and Congressman, his Cabinet, uniformly (with the exception of Madam Secretary Perkins) clothed in turtle coats and striped grey trousers, and in the gallery children straddling laps, surrounded by mittens, rubbers, coats: Diana Hopkins, daughter of Secretary of Commerce Hopkins...
Last week he sent to Congress his seventh annual work. To many Congressmen, it was at once Author Roosevelt's most skillful and most irritating effort yet. In their eyes, the 1940-41 Budget was not merely too simple, it was too beautiful. It had everything, with the possible...
But on other, less superficial criteria, "Gone With The Wind" is equally good. If Margaret Mitchell's book has a claim to be great literature, it is because of the wide variety of characters portrayed so skillfully and so vividly. Pre-and post-Civil War South has been discussed before...